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Joanna did a lot of lifting and conditioning after what happened last year. She found herself a little bit smaller than some of the other swimmers who were unbelievably muscular. Now, she's right there with them.

I think it's a good gesture. The government is showing concern about the financial industry especially with some of the smaller brokers complaining about the lack of business.

I think it'd be crazy not to have the plan encompass the entire reservoir. If we have (the smaller map), we've got a bunch of other folks telling us what they want to see happen in our community.

I think inside we match up well with them. Our guards are smaller and younger and they will press us because of that and I expect that. We need to get a walk-through in tomorrow on how to break the press. But I like our chances, I think we will create some match up problems for them.

I think in Reading we have a decent setup with two smaller middle schools, with pretty good class sizes in the low 20's. We have those pieces in place and this is a good opportunity to enhance what we already have.

It can be understood that the government, at least, has loosened its grip on management buyouts in big state companies. But any move in large enterprises may come after regulators gain enough experience in dealing with smaller firms.

It always takes longer - there are more processes in a college than any business. Humility is pretty important. Because the (financial) gift won't come through, the class may be smaller than you thought ... trust me, over a decade there will be problems, and there won't be easy answers.

I think it's a positive upside for our team that we can play smaller lineups when we have mismatches.

I think it's a phenomenal net plus for business travelers. We're going to have a smaller industry that by necessity means there won't be the frequency of flights and convenience for some people. But up through 2000, 90 percent of my time was spent on three issues -- skyrocketing business fares, gridlock at airports and worsening service levels. I think those three issues will be resolved over the next few years.

I think it's bad. But, you look at where we went from when we had the gas crisis in the '70s; we went to smaller vehicles and conservation. And then we did a 180, and now we're back to everybody driving a big, four-wheel-drive truck that gets real low gas mileage.

I think it's important to let students to be involved because if you have big activities all the time people feel obliged to go but with smaller activities more people can enjoy them.

I thought we started the game really strong and were very focused, which is a credit to our guys playing at 10:30 in the morning. I thought Australia made a great adjustment in the second half by going to a smaller lineup which gave us trouble.

I think the problem is a lack of television dates, especially towards the end of the year. It is not a small fight to be put together for $50,000 to $60,000. You can't put it on a smaller television network.

I think the overwhelming likelihood is that in the next Congress, you'll see even smaller majorities than we have now. And we weren't really able to get anything done in the last few years,

I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.

I think the concept is an interesting one, ... It allows these smaller companies to minimize their risk, which could spur some growth.

I think the attitude in the U.S. is changing. A lot of policy makers are opening up to that sort of thinking, ... But there's not a lot of money for programs like that, and the Canadian system is much smaller than ours.

I think we did a good job on the foul line and spread it out enough. We started Megan (along with other 'smalls,' Nunez and Vega) to see if we could get quickness. We felt like if we could pressure their guards with three smaller players, we'd be quicker and the advantage would be ours.

I think that cooking meals at home is on the decline. Cooks who also plan their meals ahead are probably even a smaller subset.

I think a sheriff must be street smart. In smaller departments like Geneva County, the sheriff is the one to train the deputies.

I think a lot of the smaller schools need as many days out into tournament play like the Boo Williams or the Deep South because we cannot afford to fly to just see one game in Iowa and fly back like some of the larger schools can. I wish it was a different weekend and that we had more days out as well.

I think it's very important that the competition authorities listen to the slightly smaller companies (and) try to create a level playing field so that the consumer gets the benefit of choice and gets the benefit of competition. ? I wish Pepsi well in that and I hope that Pepsi will not behave in the same way when we come knocking on the doors of some of the big retailers that they are in.

It gives us a chance to get out to the perimeter and get to those smaller guys. It's a lot easier to score out there because you've got one or two guys to beat and it's a foot race.

I think this is the year of the smaller films with independent spirits.

I think things should have gotten a lot smaller years ago.

I think they will have to be some greater revenue sharing, reinstitution of a salary tax. But I don't think the big-market owners will agree to everything the smaller clubs want. I'm not sure Bud has got more of a whip than he had in the past. Just because he's been able to keep owners from talking under threat of a fine doesn't mean when they sit behind closed doors, they lie down for him.

I think to design for a grand total less than 300 would be impractical, ... We could fill a smaller facility up within months if the judges start sentencing the way they need to and should Å  We would be overcrowded within days of opening a new facility, and it's pointless to spend all of this money and be right back where we started.

It is now possible to distribute high quality programming that has been produced by much smaller entities.

It is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.

I think that the smaller the social group a person belongs to, the more likely they are to feel pressured to conform. For example, I think high school creates a worse environment than most colleges for generating poor body images in most girls.

I think that the smaller cities that are coming back tend to be in the shadow of metropolitan areas that are performing very well economically.

I think that the smaller banks are probably going to have more difficulties in the upcoming six-to-12 months simply because they have relied on loan growth to drive EPS growth to meet consensus expectations. And loan growth is not where you want to be. Bread-and-butter banking is not that great of a business. And you're also the ends in terms of margin pressure. The Fed has raised rates 175 basis points, which usually translates into a much more difficult margin environment. And I think that that is going to hurt the bank below the top 15 in market cap for the near term. I would say the larger-cap banks, once they get over the capital markets issues they're experiencing over the second quarter, should see a little bit more strength.

I think some of the smaller deals are prerequisites for some of the bigger deals they could really make some profits out of,

I think that makes all the sense in the world. Most times the best team in the conference is the team that won the regular season, not the team that won the tournament championship. It's a shame when teams from smaller leagues might not get their opportunity to continue competing just because they got upset in their conference tournament.

I think the added frustration over baggage is often compounded by the smaller jets.

Later this year it will fuel new dual core processors and quad core processors in 2007 that we expect to deliver industry leading performance and capabilities per watt. People will see systems that can be faster, smaller and quieter with longer battery life and lower electric bills.

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

I think they (FIFA) are quite happy to take up smaller issues, like talking about a player at Manchester United who is 19 years of age, rather than pursue the really important issues in the game at this present day,

I think they're treading on sacred ground. It's just not a football thing, either. You have girls' basketball going on, cross country, golf and soccer. Communities celebrate that, especially in the smaller ones. There's no room for college athletics Monday through Thursday. I know where (fans') loyalties will lie. They'll lie with the younger kids.

I think these lures attract larger fish. I could go to a small tube jig and get more bites, but more of them would be smaller fish.

It is a wonderful competition that was set up to allow smaller countries like ours to compete on the International circuit.

Japan and China is where we should focus in Asia rather than fragment by going into some of the smaller countries that might come along as acquisition opportunities,

Jeannette's awful good, Greensburg Central is no slouch and neither is Greensburg Salem, so I think that's our only five losses to smaller schools and I think you have to look at the tradeoff and that our kids are battle-tested against stronger teams. I think sometimes, if you don't play a strong schedule you don't get a sense of who really are and we're ready to play.

Jesse Wood is not quite 100 percent, and he goes out and wrestles a smaller guy and he gets the pin. And Logan Hayman, a freshman going out there and getting a pin in the last match is great. I'm just really proud, considering that we only had eight days of training heading into tonight, that we went out and competed as hard as we did. We've got a lot of work to do, but I'm happy with our effort.

Jessy gave us the offense off the bench when we needed it. I put him in for our center (McNair) and it gave us a smaller and quicker team.

Our industry, I think, is in pretty good shape. There's a big requirement on a global basis to move to the smaller line widths for the next round of chip sets, ... ?But clearly we are seeing up-ticks in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Europe and the United States.

Our change in lifestyle over the past few decades has definitely contributed to more stress in pets generally. We have more work, more things to do, smaller properties and fences surrounding our homes.

Overall, we had a smaller percentage taking the SAT but we had more taking the ACT, ... Some students take both and some take one or the other.

Over the past decade, ... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

Over the last 10 years, we've seen a fairly significant core of the population spending more than half the value of their home on improvements. Some of that is because buyers increasingly are moving into older suburbs convenient to their jobs in the city, and they're renovating smaller Cape Cod and ranch-style homes.

Oxford's newly designed and proprietary Video On Demand system allows smaller hotel properties to offer first run Hollywood hits with a much lower cost system than previously available in the industry making this underserved market accessible with profitability to our clients, as well as Oxford Media.

Our problem this year is we play down to some teams and up to others. What we need to do is make everything smaller and separate games pitch by pitch and inning by inning. That makes the big picture easier to handle in the long run.

Our seniors are a smaller class and that's similar to 2003, ... (They) went out and got it done. We have to see if this bunch goes out and gets it done.

Our rink is the best place to play in the league. We've gotten used to the smaller ice and it's a huge advantage to us. Our fans are the best fans in the league by far. They're vocal. They're in your face. I love playing here. I wouldn't want to play anywhere else.

Our forecasts show 6 percent to 7 percent declines in home sales and single-family housing starts in 2006, followed by smaller declines in 2007.

Our feeling is that markets are not going to rebound magically to a 100-machine market. So you have to learn to work in a very competitive, smaller market.

Our crowds are getting bigger and bigger. F1 is getting smaller and smaller,

Our XD80U is smaller and lighter than most laptops, making it perfect for the mobile presenter.

On the surface, it looks like it might be cost-prohibitive to some of the smaller states. If a person sits down and truly looks deep into it, I don't think the economics are there to make it work because of the entry fees and travel costs.

Our big guys will have to guard their smaller players, so it?s a matter of defense. I?m not worried about us offensively.

Our car's gone great, but the other guys are going well too. We're going as hard as we can but tomorrow will probably suit the smaller cars, but I think we'll do alright, hopefully.

Robert Morris is a smaller team and we could have used John, but I needed to make sure all my players know that is not how we do things here. The immediate impact might hurt us, but as a coach you have to think about the future and that is what I am doing. It will hurt, though.

Riordan is the only one who they might try and move on if they get a decent offer. Caldwell possibly going to Celtic is the other one, but I think that is likelier to happen at the end of the season. They're all playing regular, top-team football so there's no great need for them to leave. One or two of the bigger clubs might let their players go on loan to smaller clubs and Kilmarnock might be on the lookout for a striker now that Boyd's gone.

Playing with her in practice, you know what she can do. You know she can rebound. You know she can guard some of those smaller post players, and obviously, she can knock down that three.

Rebounding is why we were in the game. When you are a smaller team, you have to block out.

real movement toward better funding and toward smaller service, smaller supports and more employment, more real employment, rather than meaningless day activities.

Our report can only reflect the numbers provided to the state. There are larger communities that reported fewer than some smaller communities.

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Or if you really love stock car racing, but hate being surrounded by drunken rowdies, you can go with a busload of your church friends. I wouldn't say that there are fewer rules in most of these churches. Most of them really expect people to get involved in ways that can have a profound impact on their lives. It's just that there are so many paths into involvement that a smaller church just can't match.

Part of the idea was to help our financial consultants focus on their bigger accounts, the ones that are more labor intensive, ... This also gives smaller accounts the service they need. They can call three or four times a week and have all their needs met and not have to split their attention and time with financial consultants who have $5 million accounts.

Our logistics organization will become smaller but significantly more strategic, with time spent on visioning other type of strategic technology needs as we develop more customer-centered build-to-order systems.

Our options are getting smaller and slimmer. We've got to make due with what we've got. We've had some things we've had to deal with.

Our nuclear fission reactors operate like a slow A bomb, splitting heavy plutonium or uranium atoms into smaller elements and giving off power.

Ordinarily comfortable inventories would mean lower prices -- probably closer to fifty-five dollars. But the Iran situation, and several smaller actual interruptions to crude supply, are keeping prices higher.

Orchestras are having trouble across the country. Lots of orchestras have deficits, but the larger ones have a better cash flow and are not threatened. All orchestras have very large fixed costs, but the smaller ones have the challenges of fundraising and meeting those costs.

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

St. Bernard represents one of the big problems down there, which is that the needs of smaller communities are getting lost in the maze of federal red tape and placed behind those of larger communities, such as New Orleans.

Some of the smaller stocks have been moving, but the big stocks are going to take real money to move.

Some of the smaller consultancy firms are struggling for business. A lot of them were frustrated that they didn't manage to get on to this tidal wave of everybody getting rich a year or two ago, and so they might be willing to sell just because they are tired, or because they see that they just don't have the resources to expand their niche.

Some of the guys are stronger than the others and for some of the guys, it's the first time they've played this type of hockey. Most of them have never played outside of Europe, so it's a good experience for them, plus they're learning how to play on the smaller rink.

Some of the controls that were put on the business two or three years ago are catching up with companies and they're competing to hire people from a smaller talent pool. Our clients are increasingly looking to recruit from Eastern Europe, South Africa and Australia because they can't find enough home-grown talent that they can afford.

Some of the other, smaller resorts in Canada are definitely a great deal.

Some ISPs are very proactive, and are spending huge amounts of money combating spam. The problem is not all ISPs are doing this. A smaller group of ISPs profit from carrying spam or take no action, and those bad apples touch the rest of the ISP community.

Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.

That campaign was all about the smaller guy competing with the big boys. That's what Sears tried to do (against discount department stores such as Target, Costco and Kohl's) and failed.

That amount would likely bankrupt a fair number of smaller insurance companies operating in the state.

That allows a smaller company like Immaculate Baking to take advantage of what usually benefits only large industries.

My smaller cabinet and more streamlined cabinet structure are designed for work -- not for show.

My philosophy is that small is beautiful. Instead of having one $70 million company, we will have smaller units that will operate as separate businesses. These changes will allow Morningstar to be more nimble in responding to the needs of investors.

Many exploration projects require a gold price of $350 or higher to be profitable, and I believe that larger companies will look to grow through acquisitions of other smaller companies which are making money, have mines, and ongoing projects. The trend will continue.

Loan growth at the biggest Chinese banks is not as impressive as smaller ones, but you are buying these banks for their large distribution network and dominance in the market.

Markets don't go straight up, nor should they. What we're seeing today is very necessary. You want to see a series of small ups and smaller downs, with new investors coming back in and buying the dips. This period of selling is nothing more sinister than that.

Mark came to our attention because of his strong execution skills, his proven ability to lead top performing teams and his track record in driving shareholder value. He demonstrated these skills by turning around NCR, which, while smaller than HP, is a complex organization with multiple business segments,

Marvin Harrison. He's a smaller guy, and I don't think he gets the recognition he deserves. He's been doing it for a long time, and he does it quietly. He's not out flaunting everything; he's not a flashy guy. He's the type of guy who will catch a touchdown then throw (the ball) to the ref.

Like they said in this class, more than likely (terrorists) are going to pick a smaller community because people think they won't.

It feels good to blame someone else, especially if they are smaller than you.

I think our voters have made it clear. Unless someone can demonstrate to me that having larger class sizes is better than having smaller class sizes, I'm not going to support it.

I think 'Shameless' is more of an everyman's show, whereas as great as I think 'Girls' is, it's got a smaller audience.

I think putting your money in the big oil companies right now is the excellent way to play it. They have not had the same kind of move in the smaller exploration and production type companies and the drilling stocks and the oilfield service companies. Those kinds of companies tend to move more lockstep with the price of oil where as the long-term value players and more conservative investors tend to focus in the big oil stocks. So since they haven't made the move it's a great value opportunity.

I think Oklahoma feels a little more passionate about the game, ... They're a smaller state, with only the Red River separating us from them.